| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
Traditional Asset Classes vs Alternative Investments
- Definition
- Similarities and differences
- General Characteristics
|
PPT Slides |
| 2) |
Historical Development of the markets and Financial Securities |
PPT Slides |
| 3) |
Investment Principles
- Understanding risk and return
- Diversificiation and Asset Allocation
- What is risk profiling, why do we have to do it?
- Measuring the time value of the investment and its consideration
- Historcial statistics of the returns of different asset classes
- Portfolio Theory
|
PPT Slides |
| 4) |
Introduction to Options
- Brief on Derivatives
- Options
- The reasons for using options: Usage Alternatives, speculation, hedging, arbitrage
- Market examples
- Temel Opsiyon Stratejileri
|
PPT Slides |
| 5) |
Advanced Option Strategies and Pricing
- Strategies for bullish, bearish and volatile market expectations
- Creating strategies and maths
- Pricing
|
PPT Slides, case studies from the book "Start Trading Options" |
| 6) |
Structured Products
- Definition
- Types of Structured Products
- Examples
- Risk/Return Analyses
- Terminolgy
|
PPT Slides, Handouts
Source: www:retailstructuredproducts.com |
| 7) |
Review of the 6 weeks and midterm |
Midterm |
| 8) |
Structured Products, Issuing and Trading
- Premium Accounts
- Protected Funds |
PPT Slides |
| 9) |
Structured Notes
-Issuing and the role of investors, investment baks and commercial banks
-Sales and marketing
-Structuring and Pricing
-Related Risks
-Secondary Market and Trading
-Lehman Case
|
PPT Slides, Cases to be used in the class workshop |
| 10) |
Continue to the Classwork from the previous week and solutions of the Cases |
Handouts |
| 11) |
Hedge Funds
- Characteristic Properties
- Most Famous Hedge Funds and the biggest trades of all
- Sources on Hedge Funds
- Most famous hedge fund managers and their management principles |
PPT Slides |
| 12) |
Hedge Fund Strategies
Statistical Comparision of the hedge fund industry by numbers and volumes |
PPT Slides |
| 13) |
Securitization, securitization tools CDO, CMO, CLO, MBS etc. |
PPT Slides, video |
| 14) |
Cont'd securitisation and wrap up the term |
PPT Slides |
| |
Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
As a world citizen, she is aware of global economic, political, social and ecological developments and trends. |
1 |
| 2) |
He/she is equipped to closely follow the technological progress required by global and local dynamics and to continue learning. |
1 |
| 3) |
Absorbs basic economic principles and analysis methods and uses them to evaluate daily events. |
1 |
| 4) |
Uses quantitative and statistical tools to identify economic problems, analyze them, and share their findings with relevant stakeholders. |
2 |
| 5) |
Understands the decision-making stages of economic units under existing constraints and incentives, examines the interactions and possible future effects of these decisions. |
1 |
| 6) |
Comprehends new ways of doing business using digital technologies. and new market structures. |
2 |
| 7) |
Takes critical approach to economic and social problems and develops analytical solutions. |
1 |
| 8) |
Has the necessary mathematical equipment to produce analytical solutions and use quantitative research methods. |
3 |
| 9) |
In the works he/she contributes, observes individual and social welfare together and with an ethical perspective. |
2 |
| 10) |
Deals with economic problems with an interdisciplinary approach and seeks solutions by making use of different disciplines. |
2 |
| 11) |
Generates original and innovative ideas in the works she/he contributes as part of a team. |
1 |